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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Fri/ipod solicit.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Fri/ipod solicit.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5608d77 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Fri/ipod solicit.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +As we all know it's simple to load music into the iPod whether it's with iTunes or any number of alternatives.
But what about getting music off your iPod? That's not so simple.
In fact, using only the tools provided by Apple, it's impossible; there is no way to transfer songs from an iPod to anywhere else.
Ostensibly the reason is so we don't all go copying each others music from one iPod to another. Personally, I find this assumption of criminality irritating, there are in fact a number of legitimate reasons you might need to transfer songs from an iPod to your hard drive.
For instance, suppose you hard drive crashes taking all your MP3's with it? What if the capacity of your iPod is larger than your notebook hard drive and as you load music onto your iPod, you delete it off your hard drive to conserve space?
In short there are potentially dozens of reasons you might want to transfer music off your iPod and Apple has left you with no options, but they did leave the back door open so to speak.
There are no hardware or firmware restrictions that stop you from transferring music off an iPod and so a number of non-Apple, third party developers have released tools to help you get your tunes off your iPod and put them wherever you like.
Next week we'll be doing some reviews of this software and we'd like the hear from you. What tools do you use? We're especially interested in Windows and Linux options. Share your experiences and suggestions in the comments below.
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Although not currently available, the site promises to eventually feature a way to send notes via cellphones and email and plans to allow for scheduled reminders via SMS or e-mail.
The site is simple and easy to use, in fact it's layout felt somehow familiar... oh yeah it's an orange GMail. A lot of sites use fairly similar layouts and designs, and there is something to be said for a standardization of interfaces, but some may feel Nottr has crossed the line between imitation and rip-off.
Perhaps the derivative design is simply to ease the transition in the event of a sale to Google. I have to admit that Nottr on it's own probably won't be a regular destination for me, but if Google were to snatch it up and roll it into GMail it would fit nicely with the Gmail feature set.
I like Nottr and it think it has the potential to be useful for students especially, but at the moment its feature set is fairly limited. I would like to see a way to export saved notes to other formats. A simple text file export would be nice, multiple text files in a zip download would be even better. RSS support is conspicuously lacking which means there's little or no way to share your notes beyond your public page.
[1]: http://www.nottr.com/ "Nottr.com"
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Offertrax allows you to create what it call's "tracks." Tracks are bookmarks you make on products you interested in. Taking a tip from the social bookmarking scene offers a bookmarklet that allows you to add any page to your tracks with a single click.
Once you sign up, just drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar and go find a product you'd like to track. Click the bookmarklet and Offertrax will take ask you to give the bookmark a title, description and a choice of images to represent the product. You can then add the bookmark to any of your existing tracks, or create a new track.
In addition to bookmarks Offertrax lets you add reviews, notes and control wether or not your tracks are public.
So far it sounds pretty much like del.icio.us, but here's the difference: Offertrax gives you an RSS feed and will send you announcement whenever prices change or special offers are available. Offertrax sends out bots once an hour to check all the bookmarks in your tracks. If they find a change you'll be notified in your RSS reader (or on the site obviously).
Offertrax's bots did a great job with Amazon, but weren't able to find prices for some of the smaller sites I bookmarked.
Offertrax is a great time saver and looks very promising, but there are a number of features I would like to have seen. For one thing there doesn't seem to be an immediately obvious way to see other people's tracks. There are links to leave comments when you view your own profile so obviously there must be a way to do this for other people's tracks as well, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
Also, while Offertrax lets you add reviews, the reviews are intended to be you doing the reviewing. That's fine and I like that, but what if I want to collect other reviews from around the web? I'd like to see is a way to bookmark existing reviews and add then to my tracks. For instance, if I'm sopping for new camera, I'd like to have all my camera bookmarks be joined with bookmarks to reviews on say dpreview.com in the same track container. That way I could see my research and track products all in one interface. As it is the track feature is the only dynamic off-site feature.
But Offertrax is in beta and I'm sure that they'll be adding new features in the future.
Offertrax is also offering it's services to online retailers in the form of a "track this" badge which can be added to the bottom of any page. Curious customers who might otherwise abandon the page can click the track this button and they'll be prompted to create an Offertrax account and start tracking that merchant. The pitch to merchants is that Offertrax can help them convert browsing customers into actively watching customers, which probably sounds good to retailers.
I suppose the cynical might point out that Offertrax stands to learn a lot about your online shopping habits, which is ture and there's no doubt that if the service catches Offertrax will have some valuable market statics at it's disposal. But in the end there's really no way to connect your Offertrax account to the final purchase so your privacy should be relatively secure.
Overall Offertrax is solid offering and well timed with the Holiday shopping season nearly upon us.
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* Internet analysts [ComScore released a study][1] today that finds more than 14 of the top 25 U.S. web properties draw more traffic from outside the US than within. There's a fair amount of buzz about this this morning, but I don't follow. Given that the vast majority of the world's population lives outside the U.S. this seems like a fairly obvious statistic.
* Walt Disney Co. announced yesterday that it has [sold 500,000 films][2] through its fledgling distribution deal with the iTunes Music Store. Total revenue for the sales is around $4 million, not bad for a the first two months.
* The W3C has [proposed a standard for widgets][3]. The W3C definition of widgets includes "clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters." The W3C proposal is currently in draft status and looking for comments. [via [MicroPersuasion][4]]
* FCC commissioner Mjchael J. Copps wrote an op/ed piece in the Washington Post yesterday [calling the U.S a laggard in broadband internet access][5]. Anyone living in rural America could have told you that. No word on the possible connection between this and point number one in today's reboot. [Ars Technica][6] has some suggestions for the FCC.
[1]: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1057 "Comscore Internet Usage Study"
[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2222 "Apple Insider on Disney"
[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/ "W3C widget Standard"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/11/w3c_proposes_wi.html "Micro Persuasion on the W3C"
[5]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701230.html "Copps on Broadband"
[6]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061109-8185.html "Ars Technica on Broadband"
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As [TechCrunch points out in their write up][2], Wink's indexing is not simply pulling from MySpace's search features, they've actually indexed more than 100 million profiles.
The new People Search feature get's it's own tab at the top of the page next to "the web." The results show the user's name, gender and a few lines from their profile. Searches can be refined by specific social network, gender, age and relationship status.
When I reviewed Wink it stood out as fundamentally different than most social bookmarking sites and this announcement underscores those differences. What Wink seems to be aiming for in a search engine with human ratings more than a simple bookmark sharing platform.
Wink appears to headed more and more for the social search market which is so far largely untapped. With a new niche social network popping up nearly every day, Wink's indexing puts the site in a position to be the one stop search destination for all your social networks.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html "Monkey Bites on Wink"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/10/wink-now-searches-myspace-linkedin-and-beebo/ "TechCrunch on Wink"
[3]: http://wink.com/ "Wink.com"
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